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An amateur photographer from Toba, Mie Prefecture, captured a stunning shot of the rising sun shaped like a Japanese soup bowl set upside down on a ta ....
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Huge, expanding school of mullet fish occupies central Japan river mouth February 13, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) A large school of mullet is seen in the Myokei River in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2021. (Kazushige Hayashi) TOBA, Mie In a rare spectacle that has attracted many local onlookers and created quite the splash, a horde of mullet fish has swarmed the mouth of a river in this central Japan city. The large school gathered at the mouth of the Myokei River is made up mullet fish measuring about 20 centimeters long. The river runs through the center of the city. According to locals, the fish were first spotted in mid-January. Initially, it was just a small group, but gradually the congregation has expanded into an elliptical shape, and by Feb. 10 it measured 15 meters long and 4 to 5 meters wide. The school, swimming about and splashing water when surprised by the shadows of passersby, is now so dense that the bottom of the river cannot ....